{"id":20256,"date":"2014-07-29T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T07:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20256"},"modified":"2014-07-29T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T07:50:22","slug":"air-negotiations-between-ph-and-hk-set-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/29\/air-negotiations-between-ph-and-hk-set-for-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Air negotiations between PH and HK set for October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_78293425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17100\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_78293425.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_78293425\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_78293425.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_78293425-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMANILA &#8211; In a bid to establish a greater freedom in air traffic rights with the Chinese territory, the Philippines is seeking for a more extensive air-services agreement with Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, a two-day negotiation will be held in October, with hopes of a greater number of seat entitlements to the Chinese territory, according to Aeronautics Board Executive Director Carmelo L. Arcilla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Hong Kong] is the No. 1 destination for [the country\u2019s] outbound traffic. The market is mostly Filipino leisure travelers,\u201d he said, speaking to reporters from the Business Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Although Arcilla did not elaborate on details of the current air-services deal with Hong Kong, he disclosed that \u201cit is one of the largest allocations we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s aeronautics board has already negotiated additional flights with six nations; specifically, Macau, Canada, Myanmar, New Zealand, Singapore and France.<\/p>\n<p>Additional flight allotments translate to increased profitability in the trade and tourism industries, bringing the government closer to its target of $4.6 billion in tourism revenues, and an increase in tourism influx to 6 million people by the end of the Aquino administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211; In a bid to establish a greater freedom in air traffic rights with the Chinese territory, the Philippines &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[6962,6963],"class_list":["post-20256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","tag-air-negotiations","tag-ph-and-hk","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}